Aoi prefers indoor hobbies and thanks to an injury is agoraphobic, but her childhood friend Hinata loves to show off her passion for mountain climbing. As young children they once watched the sunrise from the top of a mountain, and made a promise to do it again. During their journey, they'll have learn to cook, become familiar with the various tools of a mountaineer, climb the local hills, and meet new mountaineering friends as they learn the ropes of their hobby. When will they finally see that sunrise again?

Encouragement of Climb (ヤマノススメ Yama no Susume?, lit. "Recommendation of Mountaineering") is a slice-of-life manga series written and illustrated by Shiro, which began serialization in Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star magazine in 2011. An anime television series by 8-Bit aired in Japan as as a part of the Winter 2013 Anime season. A second season began airing in as a part of the Summer 2014 Anime season. Only season two, however, is currently on crunchyroll's website and app.

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The entirety of season 2's episode 15 is devoted to Kaede rather than following Aoi or Hinata.

Likewise, episode 20 is devoted entirely to Kokona as she walks around the city wearing her new shoes.

Bait and Switch: Episode 15 of season 2. The show heavily hints Kaede's old friend Yuuka died. Complete with showing her face in the clouds, and melancholy music...only to be revealed perfectly alive and fine at the end.

Book Ends: Episode 5 of season 2, begins with Hinata tripping and pulling down Aoi's skirt down and in the end the roles are reversed.

Aoi climbs the same mountain she and Hinata first climbed together in episode 12 of season 2, breaking her out of her melancholy from failing to climb Mt.Fuji.

Call Back: Aoi returns to Mt. Tenran, the mountain she and Hinata first climb in the first season during the summer break following their trip to Mt. Fuji. It also serves to showcase just how much Aoi had grown since that time, as despite taking the more steeper route, she feels neither as terrified or as tired as she did when she first climbed it.

Downer Ending: The Mt. Fuji arc. Aoi wasn't able to reach the summit of Mt. Fuji due to altitude sickness, and she's even more depressed because Kaede stayed with her rather than climbing the rest of the way. She gets over it eventually, but it sets a surprisingly somber mood for a few episodes.

Forgotten First Meeting: Aoi and Hinata once met Kokona — dressed in a firefly costume — as she once saved them when they were lost.

Funny Background Event: During the climb up Mt. Fuji, you'll notice a pair of foreigners going up the same path as Aoi and her friends, and all the while they're talking in grammatically correct English. What's more, on top of their enthusiasm, both of them, the man especially, is shown to be wearing comparatively flimsy clothing, especially when you compare this to the double-layer that both Hinata and Kokona had to wear at the summit.

Heroic BSOD: Aoi has one after failing to climb to the summit of Mt. Fuji due to altitude sickness. It lasts several episodes, during which the normally-cheerful series becomes quite sad.

Hypocritical Humor: Hinata laughing at Aoi when the latter pulls out a bar of yokan, and asking Aoi if she was an old geezer, when the bar came from Hinata in the first place (the same bar that she gave to Aoi on Mt. Fuji, in fact).

Iyashikei: For a series extolling the virtues of mountain-climbing, it also has a casual pace and an overall relaxing atmosphere.

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